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What is genealogy?
Hi Talking of geneology here is the website my cousin and i used to formulate and store our family tree. we spent considerable time tracing 8 generations upto my son's generation beleive me. its a worth wile excercise. venketesh htt…

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Archeological proof for Tamil Kingdom in Indonesia
Also cites from the > sources in Sri Lanka about Rajaraja's plunder of > Anurathapura and equates it with raids by, hold your > breath, Mohamed of Ghazni. I know, I know I am going > to take a lot of flak for this, but barring the &…

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Dooma Keetu
dooma ketu most propably was a comet kalki had been impressed with calpurnia's words in shakesperes julius ceasar, " comets do not arise when beggars die...." but even then the dates of halleys comet do not match the events. 12 …

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Chennai in 1909 and even before.......
> THUS MRC NAGAR AN ISLAND ! actually named Quibble island! now bridges hve made it obsolete the other island is island grounds in cooum owned by the army and rented out for major functions.

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Chennai in 1909 and even before.......
> " Thannithoraimarket " on Royapettah high rd is not connected to any > water body today . But just behind it there is koovam in which small > boats used to pick and unload usables ... in those days.. ! > Hi SPS thani thura…

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Chennai in 1909 and even before.......
Hi cooum is a holy lake and river 3 thevaram paadal petra sthalams are on its banks early diarists like pachaiyappa mudaliar write about bathing in its waters > old maps is the abundance of water bodies. The Coovum river flowing so > …

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WHO IS NANDHINI
Infact he also told me that Andaman and > Nicobar are not Island. Infact they are the sedimentary rocks which were > flushed into the Bay of bengal by the Ganges and Bramaputra. > Hi andamans are located 950km from the mouth of the Ho…

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arambichutaangayaa aarambichuttaanga
Hi kamals reply to madans reply to kamals reply to madans reply( appa- muchu muttuthu) has appeared in varalaru.com. two points stuck their head out. one is kamal asserting that one cannot know everything about a king to write his history. he ask…

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Dr. Vaidyanathan Ganapati Sthapati...
hi remarkable if ganapathi sthapathi can trace his lineage for a thousand years.- 30 generations especially with so many invasions and translovations of people in the middle. I personally think no one family can do it. venketesh

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WHO IS NANDHINI
-Hi just remind yourself of this scene. thiru koviloor malayaman talks to aditya karikalan just before he goes for the last time to kadambur. he tells him on the birth of aditya karikalan the festivities lasted for days at a stretch and the wea…

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Why I voted for Maniyam?
> Hi,Maniam and Gopulu, who did sketches for the immortal works of Kothamangalam Subbu "Thillana Mohanambal" and "Raobahadur Singaram" Hi I happened to met Mr. Vishwanathan s/o kothamangalam subbu. ananda vikadan is coming…

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International Museum Day 2007
Hi Sathish I am dropping out of saturday plan. some urgent work cropped up.

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Time Travel ;)
Hi you have to have a high dose of imagination when you make the trip. only the light house at kodikarai and veeraanam lake remain other than temples mentioned in ps. however they are precisely what existed when kalki wrote the book. no further d…

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Temple built by Raja Raja Cholan
Hi jet air and indian fly to port blair. there yiu have t take a permission to go to nicobar. and of course a lot of insurance, for alot of these tribes are supposed to be head hunting tribes. venketesh-

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International Museum Day 2007
Hi great opportunity would be fun if we can go as a group. sps could you fix a date? lets not go to the meeting but another time when sriraman is free. and sriraman could also take us to the church altar where Clive of India got married.

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Land management during cholas period
Hi the other day a tamil prof was explaining to me how roman numerals and tamil numbers are similar nine is written as one before ten IX in roman in tamil it is onbathu ( onnu +pathu) i dont beleive one lead to another but must be attributed …

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Temple built by Raja Raja Cholan
Hi Vk nicobar is inhabited by many tribes which still dont use fire. in fact these tribes reportedly sensed the tsunami much before it happened and fled to the interiors of the islands. I think we need special permission to venture into most of t…

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Devadasis in during Medieval cholas period
Hi a couple of months ago MADRAS MUSINGS had reproduced an article on the theppam( float) fetival of mylapore in 1800s. i think it was by olcott or madam blavatsky of the theosophical society. in it the author describes how the fishermen of santh…

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Old is Gold
Hi chandra seems to be the most motivated of the lot. he made a trip to devakottai . met my dad and sorted the books there itself. he has got some books on suddhananda bharathi who incidentally was for sometime a teacher in devakottai. it was a…

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Madurai - (part 2) Evening to Next day morning
- hi madurai was shaped like a lotus initially. and it was named after a drop of madhu- the ambrosia that fell from shiva's locks. the strategic importance of madurai was always felt thro history. upto the nayaks, british, nawabs and the pol…

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Arumai....
Hi Sri atleast the heroines of ps and parthiban kanavu and to an extent ss are much better off that kalki's other heroines they smile, they seduce, they seem more normal. thyagaboomi and ali osai have heroines who mope most of the time. and…

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May 12 and 13th Trip
Thambi sathishaa veyila paarthaayaa? venketesh

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Arumai....
-Nandini, mandakini and pungkuzhali are 3 charecters whose emotions are not understood by the charecters of the ps as well as the readers. perhaps kalki meant it to be that way. an interesting fact is that all of them are blood related. readers o…

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Where is PAZHAYAARAI?
an excavation in uraiyur? you must be joking nanda if you are overweight you cant even find a place to stand in uraiyur. even the main panchavarneshwara temple has been so illeagaly encroached on, that 9 out of ten times-I miss the temple entra…

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Indian Flag
If Canadians and > Europeans have it, it is because there is not much of a difference between > adjoining states. Do the different states in Canada converse in different > dialects, eat different food, dress differently,etc, etc? Hi ra…

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SAATHAN @ AYYANAR
Hi Was GKC better connected than thanjavur?? was it a possible reason for the shift even the later pandyas had kannanur( samayapuram) and uyyakondan( a suburb of trichy) as alternate capitals in which the co rulers stayed. venketesh

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SAATHAN @ AYYANAR

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Shroud of Turin
> As Kalki points out everytime, Sembiyan Madevi did not hate her "son", > it was vice-versa, to some extent since he felt betrayed by her. Maybe > it was out of love that she had a statue made for Amara Bhujanga. Hi Ragothama…

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SEKKIZHAR
But where is Where is Thiruppudai Maruthur situated? Please let me know and I will visit the place. Hi Dhiwaker i referred. its near amba samudram in tirunelveli district > > Srisailam is also one of eighteen Sakthi Peetam i think…

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SEKKIZHAR

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